"INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE SOWA RIGPA
(traditional Tibetan medicine) "
AMCHI TRAINING COLLEGE OF KATHMANDU
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“Sowa Rigpa”, which literally means the science of healing, is one of the oldest systems of medicine. The International College is the first institution that offers a qualifying degree in traditional medicine Sowa Rigpa, in Nepal. The college is located in the sacred area of the Great Stupa of Kathmandu, Bodanath Stupa.
The college wishes to anchor the practice of traditional medicine in order to allow future generations, Nepalese and international, to have access to it and to protect it. By enrolling in the university program of the University of Lumbini, the college wishes to create recognition at the national and international level, in order to protect the various medical lineages in Nepal (traditional medicine, Tibetan, Ayurvedic ...)
This medicine takes into account the human in a holistic way, the whole physical body, the mental as well as at the energy level. The treatments include a personalized diet, a natural pharmacopoeia as well as external therapies in order to re-harmonize the lost balance which leads or will lead to an installed pathology. Sowa Rigpa is still practiced in part of Asia, Tibet, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Ladakh, China and Mongolia, but more recently in parts of Europe and South America. Its status as traditional medicine no longer guarantees its sustainability and the College of Kathmandu now wishes to secure the future of this ancestral medicine by creating a diploma recognized at both the national and international level, as is Ayurvedic medicine.
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OBJECTIVES OF THE COLLEGE
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train doctors and teachers who would have a deep knowledge of Sorig medicine,
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maintain resources for health, education and research,
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promote health services through different branches (consultations, medical camps in villages...),
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promote Sorig medical research,
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preserve precious, rare, endangered medicinal plants, species, but more generally protect the living beings necessary for this entire ecosystem,
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regularly evaluate, modify and update its teaching programs,
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promote efforts to maintain the environment (medicinal plants being wild and not cultivated).
The structure opened in 2016. Classes are in English and Nepali, but some classes can only be provided in the original Tibetan language. This university program leads to the degree of Doctor of Medicine Sowa Rigpa. The studies are divided into two parts, four and a half years of lessons and practice followed by a year of internship in a traditional clinic in the capital. Access to studies goes through an entrance exam in biology, the basics in English and Tibetan.
ALH supports the education and preservation of traditional medicine: this amchi college needs all of us!
